Intel abandons OLPC Project

by Julian Prokaza
on Fri 04 Jan 2008 Comment

OLPCIntel has pulled out of the OLPC project, just months after joining the board in order to contribute technical expertise and funding. The two teamed up last July after an ongoing spat in which OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte, accused Intel of trying to thwart the project's aim by launching its own low-cost Classmate PC.

Intel spokesperson Chuck Mulloy cited a "philosophical impasse" as the reason for the split as "OLPC had asked Intel to end our support for non-OLPC platforms, including the Classmate PC, and to focus on the OLPC platform exclusively. At the end of the day, we decided we couldn't accommodate that request."

The OLPC is powered by an AMD, rather than an Intel, processor, but Mulloy said that this had nothing to do with its decision to leave the project.

Around 170,000 OLPC XO laptops were ordered through last year's "Give 1 Get 1" deal in which customers paid $400 for two laptops, one of which was then donated to a developing country.

[ Associated Press]

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